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Question about using rockbox for audio and original firmware for video- ipod 5g

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mrufino1:
I'm restoring it now, I will try that in a minute. The fsck did finish before to follow up my earlier post. While we're at it, any ideas on why it randomly decides not to mount in linux? The problem there is that then if I disconnect it, it sounds like I am causing errors. I know it is SUPPOSED to automount in ubuntu.

Chronon:
You're restoring, as in via iTunes?  This should restore everything to factory configuration.  Though it is probably still worth running the fsck.vfat command that cool_walking_ wrote.

I don't know why it should randomly not mount.  That's peculiar.

mrufino1:
I am wondering if my ubuntu laptop is messed up. But it is weird. I installed ubuntu on my other laptop the other day but can't get the wireless working yet (wired ethernet is broken- calling dell in a few minutes about that one since they broke it!). I am going to try the fsck again in a minute- I accidentally set the ipod to japanese...

cool_walking_:

--- Quote from: mrufino1 ---The problem there is that then if I disconnect it, it sounds like I am causing errors. I know it is SUPPOSED to automount in ubuntu.
--- End quote ---
I'm not sure on the meaning of "disconnect" here. Automount does not include any sort of "auto-unmount".  Are you "safely remove"-ing the disk?

mrufino1:
No, but what will happen is that ubuntu is not mounting it (or in some cases it is in the media folder  under a name like "sda2") but the ipod itself says it is connected. Therefore, there is no way to safely disconnect it (and I mean physically disconnect it). When I just reformatted it now, the ipod showed up right away on the desktop. I am funning fsck.vfat -at etc. on it right now, takign a while, but if I understand you right, that will find any bad sectors on the drive and in the future avoid writing to those? If that is the case, could that avoid this in the future?

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